Watch Grumpy Dustin Hoffman Face His Dysfunctional Family in The Meyerowitz Stories

Here is the only selling point you need for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected): Dustin Hoffman plays a thoroughly foul-mouthed grump. The legendary actor stars in the latest Noah Baumbach picture, playing a pissy dad who conveniently finds a way to complain about everything, including the prices at a fancy restaurant that his son treats him to.

“$35 for a salmon? You get the salmon to blow you for that price?” he exclaims in the new trailer, debuting exclusively on Vanity Fair.

In the film, Hoffman plays Harold Meyerowitz, a retired Bard art professor reconnecting with his family, including his successful son Matthew (Ben Stiller), his less successful son Danny (Adam Sandler), and his daughter Jean (Elizabeth Marvel). Danny also brings his Bard-bound teen daughter Eliza (Grace Van Patten, a V.F.Vanities star) along for the ride.

Like any Baumbach film, Meyerowitz focuses on the dramedy of everyday life, colored by dialogue that teeters on the absurd. Everyone in the family talks all over each other, but—in the trailer, anyway—none can quite outdo Maureen (Emma Thompson), Harold’s hippie-dippie wife, who can ramble about the oddest things.

“In Italy, they take all of the little birds and deep fry ’em,” she says drunkenly during dinner, a perfect non sequitur. “It's very sad; there are no little birds left in Italy anymore.”

See all the offbeat familial chaos ensue in the trailer above, which is set to the Kinks’s rowdy classic “Where Have All the Good Times Gone?” The film premieres in theaters and on Netflix October 13.